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  Introduction: Improvement citizens` health and sanitary statue is a sign of human development in any society. In this study the importance of fair sanitary – treatment facilities and indexes distribution were considered, besides, the role of health and sanitary indicators in improving the citizens’ life quality and sustainable development of the region, the distribution and development play a very important role comparatively among the cities of Azerbaijan Province.

  Method: In this study the descriptive-analytic one and quantitative data analysis techniques such as, Z score index, Spearman coefficient correlation, Topsis multi attribute decision making technique, AHP and clustered hierarchal data analysis method were used.

  Findings: There is widespread deficiency regarding the distribution of sanitary-treatment indexes throughout the province and the allocation of facilities is not in line with the cites’ population needs.

Discussion: As the administrative, political and economic center of Azerbaijan, -Orumiyeh city - is outstandingly the most developed one regarding health-treatment indicators compared the other cities. Shahin-dej, Mahabad, Maku, Takaab, Naghade are ranked next to Orumiye respectively and thus are known as semi-developed cities in this regard. The remaining cities were identified as deprived

Keywords: Development, Health and Sanitary Indicators, Spatial Analysis, Western Azerbaijan

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